Friday, August 01, 2008

But when you look at how the teams were ranked relative to their final 2007 rankings, it is the Clemson and Florida that really standout, gaining the most in the preseason ranking relative to their final ranking last season.

For those teams that ended ranked last year, the relative gains in ranking this preseason are –

High expectations for Georgia, but perhaps even higher expectations for the 2008 Florida defense? We shall see.

Recognition

I can’t say enough about my two favorite blogs Get the Picture and Saurian Sagacity. There are not two more consistently thought-provoking and analytical college football blogs on the internet.
-Orange and Blue Hue

Rare is the SMQ shout out for the sole purpose of shouting out, but even rarer is the high substantive quality of disinterested naysaying in progress at Saurian Sagacity, where poster Mergz is steadily blowing up notions of "National Championships" new and old...-Sunday Morning Quarterback

In the old days, long before Urban Meyer roamed the sidelines at The Swamp, even before Steve Spurrier was slinging touchdowns and kicking game-winning field goals, some sports writers gave the University of Florida's football team a long-forgotten nickname: theSaurians. Today, two Florida alums pay tribute to those scribes of old as we enjoy the present and look toward the future.